OK psych nuts, prepare to get excited. According to a recent article by the Associated Press, the American Psychological Association (or APA), which is the pre-eminent society and basically ruling body of psychology in the US, has released a report officially denouncing gay-to-straight therapies. This is huge, because there are a couple things to get from this. So, fellow psychology majors, and fellow argument/debate lovers, listen up. This is going to be fun.

First off, let's get links out of the way:
Google News
APA Summary
The Full-On No-Holds-Barred Report

There we go. Now, what does this really mean to you and I? Let me point you to two specific things that this report states:

"...the research and clinical literature demonstrate that same-sex sexual and romantic attractions, feelings, and behaviors are normal and positive variations of human sexuality, regardless of sexual orientation identity..."

So, I'm a big fan of digg.com. It's the site I go to when I'm bored on the internet, and basically I let people all over the world do my surfing for me, and just tell me what to look at. It's great... I make my lazy time in itself lazier. But it also kind of gives you a decent gauge on what it is exactly that other people out there in the world are seeing and reading, and every so often something gay pops up. Those are always my favorites. Around the time of Prop 8, Digg was aglow with all kinds of pro-gay high-dig articles and links and editorials. It was amazing... it looked like the new generation was on our side. Even afterward, articles flew about the Mormon church and its tax-exempt status, or what kind of fantastic things the Pope had to say about homosexuals (No joke, he said gays were like the rainforest), but recently the LGBT movement on Digg has slowed, because as with all things on the internet, fads fade. Every so often though, some brave soul finds something digg-worthy, and it makes it to the front page... like a flare gun of civil rights telling people we're still here, we're still queer, and dammit we're not going away.

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